Denatured alcohol manufacturing · South Dakota

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone

Big Stone City, SD · ~53 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone safety composite

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2024

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone injury rate improved

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Big Stone City, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/23
  • PHOTO Poet Biorefining Han…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poet Biorefining Hanlontown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Poet Biorefining -Big Stone in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Poet Biorefining -Big Stone averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=5 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Poet Biorefining -Big Stone falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 23 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in South Dakota.

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone (53 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Poet Biorefining -Big Stone
Poet Biorefining -Big Stone (53 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Poet Biorefining -Big Stone has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 0.0 1 1 0
2019 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 4 0 0
2017 5.0 1.6 3 0 0
2016 3.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · SD · Big Stone City

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Big Stone City, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining Hanlontown 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbon Green BioEnergy, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairmont Plant 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Advanced Sunflower, LLC Huron 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terex - Canton 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 571 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Flandreau Hospital 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese Big Stone 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Stone Plant 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Advance Fiber Technologies Corp. (AFT) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pottsville Facility 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JB Holland Construction, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Falls Office 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Turtlepoint Plant, Office and Shop 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eau Claire Wi 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manildra Milling Corporation 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Campanelli 53 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.